defend the indefensible: glenn fucking greenwald

greenwald might work as is, depending on health and diet

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Kind of pissed that Carlson never has DJ Spooky on as a guest, they could debate bullshit IDM

illbient times

Lol

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(tbc i appreciate the intercept. that image just reminded me of the stuff you see on subway walls advertising these amorphous "leadership conferences.")

(also: pitbull)

I've been to one of those conferences, it was a nightmare. Bill Cosby gave a speech that was basically a long riff on "get off my lawn, kids". Somehow the only moderately decent speech was Colin Powell.

I honestly don't get why Greenwald is so ride or die to defend Trump from accusations of corruption. Today he's hammering on "the only thing those Resistance wackos are unhappy about in Barr's report is that he suppressed any discussion of the evidence that people working for Trump obstructed justice," which, um, yeah, why would that not be something to be seriously unhappy about?

This 100+ thread is a tough read:

1) So now we have self-described “progressives” like @ggreenwald and @mtracey telling us that the threat of white nationalism in the USA is “nonexistent” (as Tracey put it), and when called out for that GG chimes in and claims that we “needs be keep the threat in perspective.” pic.twitter.com/89CDRKzN1v

— David Neiwert (@DavidNeiwert) May 20, 2019

but take a step back from inside the charred remains of this black church and—oh right you can't you're dead

fuck this asshole

Honestly the importance and impressiveness of the work he is doing in Brazil right now kind of makes most criticism seem petty.

nope

He criticized the Iraq War once, so the defense of white supremacists is cool.

he misgendered my friend and refused to apologize for it and caterwauled about how unfair it was to him on a fuckin podcast, he can burn in hell, i don't give a shit

petty my ass

not even gonna ask

Idk anything about brad’s friend but he is literally risking his life to report something that could bring down an actual, literal fascist. That kind of makes whether he had the exact right take on twitter on exactly how we should approach white supremacists (“defending” is a gross distortion) seem petty, yes. But, you know, online.

he misgendered my friend while defending jesse singal, who writes transphobic garbage for the atlantic. i have no doubt that his work in brazil is important. thank god i can hate his guts anyway

i'm glad a chapo episode convinced you that we all don't have legitimate grievances against this shithead tho

fuck this dude can't abide his bullshit

Little bit of a different story when the authoritarian powered by fake news is in your own (new) backyard, huh Glenn?

right??

what/where is this important Brazilian reporting?

https://theintercept.com/staff/glenn-greenwald/

thanks

Little bit of a different story when the authoritarian powered by fake news is in your own (new) backyard, huh Glenn?

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, July 31, 2019 3:08 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Bolsonaro is like several orders of magnitude more authoritarian than trump. Or at least their system
Allows him to be whereas ours still places some checks on Trump.

or more that there's a system that could theoretically check Trump that, regardless of his efforts and bumbling, he can't significantly break down over four, or god forbid, eight years

Also FYI while I first learned of his recent story through Chapo, i also worked for a year on Lava Jato-related litigation and had already followed the larger story. So it’s not like I think it’s significant because Will M says so.

he is literally risking his life to report something that could bring down an actual, literal fascist

And there are no Brazilian journalists reporting on Bolsonaro, which is why The Intercept is the only place one can go to hear about all the terrible shit going on down there. ¡Viva Greenwald!

TheIntercept is good on Brazil, but the idea that this somehow invalidates criticism of Greenwald is nonsensical. It's really not that hard to avoid going on Tucker Carlson.

no one..said that

"he sucks but also does good/worthwhile work on occasion" is really not that complicated a sentiment to hold in one's mind

Meaning, I take it, that criticism of him is not petty.

he misapprehended what shows to appear on and refused to apologize for it

And there are no Brazilian journalists reporting on Bolsonaro, which is why The Intercept is the only place one can go to hear about all the terrible shit going on down there. ¡Viva Greenwald!

― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, July 31, 2019 3:38 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Actually, the Intercept literally broke the most significant corruption story since Lava Jato itself (and arguably a bigger one), and that story demonstrates that the entire Lava Jato investigation itself was rigged against PT. So it actually literally is true that the Intercept is the only place that one can go to hear about that particular thing which is of enormous significance. But I never actually expect the slightest degree of comprehension or sophistication to show up in your posts so I'm not really surprised by your stupidity here.

fwiw, I take back my statement that this renders criticism of him "petty" -- I don't want to argue with anyone's grievances against him. I just think he doesn't deserved to be "cancelled" in light of all of this. But his bravery pales in comparison to those who always dare to have the correct takes on everything.

Wonder if he’s sucked Dan Savage’s dick

uh

Not positive Glenn Greenwald and Dan Savage are different people actually

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/08/what-actual-resistance-looks-like

(To me, however, he has always been unfailingly kind and generous, and has repeatedly used his platform to promote our little left-wing magazine.)

does not disqualify the merit of his documentation nor the sincerity of his opinion obv.

the essay speaks for itself I think

clearly everyone should be disqualified from ever writing about anyone who has said nice things about them

i meant what i wrote, but rethinkin this, now that trump pointedly compliments those with whom he has korrupt as fuck “relationships,” all compliments are suspect in my world.

tho my unpopularity affords me great license, ‘tis true.

Veja o momento em que @augustosnunes agride @ggreenwald ao vivo na @JovemPanNews. É um absurdo esse descontrole por parte de Nunes, que usou os filhos do Glenn para atacá-lo por causa de matérias da Vaza Jato pic.twitter.com/aJjODSxaZA

— George Marques (@GeorgMarques) November 7, 2019

for context, the old guy is a bolsanaro lackey journalist who recently (jokingly, I think) suggested that since glenn spends all day on twitter and his husband is always away, who is taking care of their children and should a child welfare court get involved. today they appeared on (I guess) a right-wing radio show and glenn confronted him about it, he repeated what he said, glenn called him a coward about 7 times, and then that happened

would not be surprised if glenn gets killed down there.. and I say that as a critique of brazil, not glenn